Miscellany : [containing 42 scientific and other texts, most notably by Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln].

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Tractatus Lincolniensis de Generacione vocalium -- Tractatus de modis significandi -- Tractatus doctoris sancti de modalibus -- Tractatus de divisione logice -- Tractatus Lincolniensis de cometis -- Tractulus eiusdem de generatione impressionum humidarum -- Tract[at]us eiusdem quod homo sit minor mundus -- Tractatus ejusdem de differenciis loci in celo -- Tractatus Francisci de signis nature -- Tractatus bonus de arte memorandi -- Tractatus Bredoonis de arithmetrica -- Tractatus Lauenham de ludo philosophorum -- Tractatus auctoris de ponderibus -- Tractatus Euclidis de ponderibus -- Tractatus Lincolniensis de Yride -- Tractatus eiusdem de fractionibus radiorum -- Tractatus eiusdem de luce -- Tractatus de practica Geometrie -- Tractatus Alberti de forma resultante in speculo -- Tractatus de practica musice -- Tractatus magistri Johannis de Muris musice -- Tractatus primus operis quadripartiti de sinu recto et verso -- Tractatus Lincolniensis de spera -- Tractatus de Chilindro -- Tractatus Lincolniensis de impressionibus aeris -- Tractatus de iudico urine secundum vires signorum et planetarum -- Tractatus continet Theoricam -- Tractatus de conventibus Astrolabii -- Alkyndus de causis reddendis.

Description:

Title from printed catalog.
Script: Anglicana under Secretary influence, which Malcolm B. Parkes and others associate with late medieval English university scribes.
Decoration: Rubrication; red ink used for initials (3- or 2-line initials at beginning of texts, 2-line initials for sections), paraph marks, brackets, highlighted first letters in sentences, and for circling some numerical series and occasional catchwords. Five figures and a working volvelle with two moving parts illustrate the Ramon Lull text, fols. 24r-27v.

Binding note:

England, 15th century. Alum-tawed deerskin, almost white in color, over cushioned oak boards (7 mm thick). In the mid-16th century, the arms of the earl of Northumberland were gold-embossed, slightly askew, at the center of the front and back covers.

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Garrett MS. 95 is a miscellany comprised of a series of booklets containing texts and extracts. One of the texts, a 1441 treatise on the horoscope of King Henry VI (fols. 127v-130v) provides a terminus post quem for the manuscript, at least in part. Early provenance is unknown. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript from Quaritch on 10 August 1928. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

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Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 198-203.

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